Hi, Anthony DiSante <orders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > As if the whole gtk/glib nightmare weren't confusing enough, glib-2.2 > and glib-2.4 etc install themselves in directories named glib-2.0. > That could be your problem. No, it isn't. Also, there isn't any gtk/glib nightmare, you are just clueless. Perhaps you want to make yourself familiar with the way the compiler and linker works or alternatively, stick to binary packages. > I'm going through the same upgrades (for gimp 2) that you are now. I > apparently had glib-2.2.3 installed at /usr/lib/, and when I installed > 2.4 it went to /usr/local/lib/. So I deleted these (glib-2.3) files: > > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 > /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.200.3 > /usr/lib/glib-2.0/ Deleting these files wasn't such a good idea. Who told you to do that? > That made the error message go away. Of course, now none of my > programs will start (rox (file manager), gftp, thunderbird, etc), > and gtk+-2.4.0's make is dying with some obscure error, so my entire > system is borked. Make sure that /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf (before /usr/lib) and run ldconfig. That might fix it. Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list